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  • The Sandhill Crane State
    Paul Johnsgard
    This book includes the locations, descriptions, and points of biological, historical, geological,or paleontological interest of nearly 350 sites in Nebraska, most of which arefree to access. Its 53,000 words include accounts of 9 state historical parks, 8 stateparks, 2 national forests, 2 national monuments, and 7 national wildlife refuges aswell as 181 wildlife management area...
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    36,25 €

  • The Birds of the Nebraska Sandhills
    Josef Kren / Paul Johnsgard
    This is the BLACK & WHITE FIELD EDITION of The Birds of the Nebraska Sandhills.This book provides basic information on all the species of birds that have been reliably reportedfrom the Nebraska Sandhills region as of 2020. They include 46 permanent residents,125 summer breeders, 125 migrants, and 102 rare or accidental species, totaling398 species. Information on status, migrat...
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    26,83 €

  • The Lives, Lore, and Literature of Cranes
    Paul Johnsgard
    This book provides basic information on cranes that should be of interest and importance to crane-loving birders ('craniacs') as well as to ornithologists and wildlife managers. Primary consideration is given to the sandhill and whooping cranes, but all 13 of the Old World cranes are also discussed. Special consideration is given to the relative abundance and conservation statu...
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    32,56 €

  • The North American Swans
    Paul Johnsgard
    Among birds, swans are relatively long-lived species and are also among the most strongly monogamous, having prolonged pair and family bonds that strongly influence their reproductive and general social behavior, which, in combination with their beauty and elegance, contribute to the overall high degree of worldwide human interest in them. This volume of more than 59,000 words ...
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    25,50 €

  • The Abyssinian Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes in the Field Museum
    Paul Johnsgard
    This book documents the paintings and drawings executed by Louis Agassiz Fuertes during the Field Museum of Natural History’s seven-month expedition to Ethiopia (Abyssinia) in 1926-27. During that time Fuertes completed 70 field watercolors of 55 species of birds and four species of mammals, 34 pencil drawings of 13 species of mammals and 11 species of birds. This book identifi...
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    50,91 €

  • Wyoming Wildlife
    Paul Johnsgard
    This book surveys Wyoming?s mammal, bird, reptile, and amphibian faunas. In addition to introducing the state?s geography, geology, climate, and major ecosystems, it provides 65 biological profiles of 72 mammal species, 195 profiles of 196 birds, 9 profiles of 12 reptiles, and 6 profiles of 9 amphibians. There are also species lists of Wyoming?s 117 mammals, 445 birds, 22 repti...
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    86,85 €

  • Wyoming Wildlife
    Paul Johnsgard / Tom Mangelsen
    This book surveys Wyoming’s mammal, bird, reptile, and amphibian faunas. In addition to introducing the state’s geography, geology, climate, and major ecosystems, it provides 65 biological profiles of 72 mammal species, 195 profiles of 196 birds, 9 profiles of 12 reptiles, and 6 profiles of 9 amphibians. There are also species lists of Wyoming’s 117 mammals, 445 birds, 22 repti...
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    36,70 €

  • Wyoming?s Ucross Ranch
    Jacqueline Canterbury / Paul Johnsgard
    This book profiles 60 of the most abundant, characteristic, and interesting birds that are regularly reported from the 20,000-acre Ucross Ranch and the adjacent Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming. Ucross is a textbook example of the prairie grassland/ shrubland habitat type referred to as the sagebrush steppe, a landscape that is an icon of Wyoming?s vast open spaces. ...
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    28,11 €

  • The Ecology of a Tallgrass Treasure
    Paul Johnsgard
    This book describes the major plant and animal components of Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, an 850-acre National Audubon Society tallgrass prairie in Lancaster County, southeastern Nebraska. In addition to providing a species list of the area’s plants (368 species), there are comprehensive annotated lists of its birds (240), mammals (43), reptiles (23), and amphibians (10...
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    19,88 €

  • The Birds of Nebraska
    Paul Johnsgard
    This annotated list of the birds of Nebraska has been updated to conform with the most recent (2017) major revision of the American Ornithologists’ Society’s Checklist of North American Birds (Chesser et al., 2017) and modified to conform to the most recent 'Official List of the Birds of Nebraska' by the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union-461 species as of 2017. I have classified 3...
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    27,94 €

  • A Naturalist’s Guide to the Great Plains
    Paul A. Johnsgard / Paul AJohnsgard
    This book documents nearly 500 US and Canadian locations where wildlife refuges, nature preserves, and similar properties protect natural sites that lie within the North American Great Plains, from Canada’s Prairie Provinces to the Texas-Mexico border. Information on site location, size, biological diversity, and the presence of especially rare or interesting flora and fauna ar...
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    23,06 €

  • Common Birds of The Brinton Museum and Bighorn Mountains Foothills
    Jacqueline Canterbury / Paul Johnsgard
    Part I. The Brinton Museum and Its BirdsPart II. Profiles of 48 Common Local and Regional Birds: Ring-necked Pheasant, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Great Blue Heron, Turkey Vulture, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Cooper’s Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Sandhill Crane, Killdeer, Eastern Screech-Owl, Great Horned Owl, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Calliope Hummingbird, Belted Kingfisher, Dow...
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    23,72 €

  • The North American Whistling-Ducks, Pochards, and Stifftails
    Paul Johnsgard
    The 12 species described in this volume are not closely related, but they provide an instructive example of adaptive evolutionary radiation within the much larger waterfowl lineage as to their divergent morphologies, life histories, and social behaviors.The whistling-ducks (Dendrocygna), with three known North American species, are notable for their permanent pair-bonds, extend...
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    26,78 €

  • The North American Perching and Dabbling Ducks
    Paul Johnsgard
    This volume updates and expands a portion of P. A. Johnsgard’s 1975 Waterfowl of North America. It includes two species of the perching duck tribe Cairinini: the muscovy duck and the wood duck, which forage on the water surface but perch in trees and nest in elevated tree cavities. It also includes the dabbling, or surface-feeding, duck tribe Anatini, that forage on the water s...
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    30,58 €

  • The North American Sea Ducks
    Paul Johnsgard
    The 21 species of sea ducks are one of the larger subgroups (Tribe Mergini) of the waterfowl family Anatidae, and the 16 species (one historically extinct) that are native to North America represent the largest number to be found on any continent. This book is an effort to summarize succinctly our current knowledge of sea duck biology and to provide a convenient survey of the v...
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    30,67 €

  • The North American Geese
    Paul Johnsgard
    There are eight currently recognized species of North American geese: emperor, greater white-fronted, snow, Ross’s, Canada and cackling, barnacle, and brant geese. This book describes each species’ geographic range and subspecies, its identification traits, weights and measurements, and criteria for its age and sex determination. Ecological and behavioral information includes e...
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    24,27 €

  • Swans
    Paul Johnsgard
    The seven species of swans are an easily and universally recognized group of waterfowl, which have historically played important roles in the folklore, myths and legends in many cultures. Among the largest of all flying birds, they have been used as symbols of royalty, grace and beauty, and largely for these reasons swans have only rarely been considered acceptable as targets f...
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    21,69 €

  • At Home and at Large in the Great Plains
    Paul Johnsgard
    These fourteen essays originally appeared in Prairie Fire, a monthly newspaper that for seven years has carried important messages of social, environmental, and economic issues to residents of Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, and South Dakota, and subscribers in the rest of the world. They discuss the North American east-west ecological boundaries, spring migration events, bird feeder...
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    21,14 €

  • Global Warming and Population Responses among Great Plains Birds
    Paul Johnsgard
    This book summarizes the evidence from 47 years (1967-2014) of Audubon Christmas Bird Counts and finds that bird populations and winter ranges have changed for many species in the Great Plains states (the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Texas panhandle). The book offers quantitative descriptions of the winter abundance for 147 of the most commonly encountered regio...
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    28,84 €

  • Música de las Grullas
    Enrique Weir / Karine Gil-Weir / Paul Johnsgard
    'En un sábado mágico de marzo, maneje con un estudiante de postgrado hasta el valle central del Platte, al oeste de Grand Island, tanto para ver la migración primaveral de aves acuáticas como la de las grullas grises...' ...
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    17,51 €

  • Birds and Birding in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains Region
    Helen F. Downing / Helen FDowning / Jacqueline L. Canterbury / Jacqueline LCanterbury / Paul A. Johnsgard / Paul AJohnsgard
    This book is an authorized updated and expanded edition of Helen Downing’s Birds of North-Central Wyoming and the Bighorn National Forest (1990). The Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming are more than 100 miles in length with a maximum elevation of 13,167 feet. Flanked to the west by the Bighorn River basin and to the east by the Powder River basin, they have produced a wide variation...
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    25,73 €

  • The Birds of Nebraska
    Paul Johnsgard
    This summary of the birds of Nebraska has been restricted to those species that have been convincingly reported at least once in Nebraska from historic time to the present. It has also been modified in its current revision to conform very closely in that regard to the most recent Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union’s 'Official List of the Birds of Nebraska' (Brogie, 2010; NOU Reco...
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    24,24 €

  • Birds of the Central Platte River Valley and Adjacent Counties
    Mary Bomberger Brown / Paul A. Johnsgard / Paul AJohnsgard
    The central Platte River Valley region of Nebraska encompasses 11 counties and nearly 10,000 square miles, and extends about 120 miles from the western edge of Lincoln County to the eastern edge of Merrick County. At its center is the Platte River, the historic spring staging area for Sandhill and Whooping cranes, five species of geese, and millions of waterfowl and water-depen...
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    21,13 €

  • Wings over the Great Plains
    Paul Johnsgard
    The great North-South migratory pathway across the North American Great Plains-from the tropic wintering grounds to the high arctic breeding areas-is analyzed for the first time. Describes 114 U.S. and 21 Canadian localities of special importance to migrating birds. Discusses nearly 400 species of 50 avian families. Includes 7 maps, 49 figures and over 100 literature citations....
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    23,33 €

  • Wetland Birds of the Central Plains
    Paul Johnsgard
    This 100,000-word monograph summarizes the distribution, abundance and breeding biology of the 183 species of wetland-adapted birds reliably reported from South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas through 2011. These include 91 species known to breed or have historically bred in the region, 51 species that migrate through the region but are not yet known to breed or have bred there, an...
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    25,62 €

  • Rocky Mountain Birds
    Paul Johnsgard
    Bird enthusiasts will find viewing loca­tions and updated contact information for hundreds of sites in Wy­oming, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Alberta, and British Columbia. Part 1 outlines the habitats, ecology, and bird geography of the Rocky Mountains north of the New Mexico-Colorado border, including recent changes in the ecology and avifauna of the region. It provides detailed...
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    23,10 €

  • A Nebraska Bird-Finding Guide
    Paul Johnsgard
    Nebraska lies in the transition zone between North American eastern and western avifaunas and is home to more than 200 breeding and 150 migrant species. This definitive guide to Nebraska birdwatching by the state’s preeminent ornithologist includes a county-by-county rundown of the best sites, a calendar of migrations, an annotated checklist of regularly occurring Nebraska bird...
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    26,77 €

  • Dragons and Unicorns
    Paul A. Johnsgard
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    15,91 €